Google has announced its partnership with Raspberry Pi to develop a range of smart tools that will made available in 2017. The company plans to bring its artificial intelligence, machine learning and all its other developer tools to the small computer. In a blog post, Raspberry Pi said: "The tech titan has exciting plans for the maker community... Google's range of AI and machine learning technology could enable makers to build even more powerful projects."
[...] Both Google and Raspberry Pi are yet to reveal any specific use cases or applications that have been developed ahead of the partnership. Although they have revealed that they will be particularly focusing on AI and machine learning, and as both companies have IoT products it is likely that this will be a key field of interest.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by opinionated_science on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:33AM
Google, just do one thing - remove the need for binary blobs. Perhaps buy out there IP needed.
There, "don't be evil" can be interpreted as "Do something *good*", if the intent was not to look like a bystander....
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tonyPick on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:19AM
Or pile some support onto the existing VPU/QPU reverse [github.com]engineering [github.com] and open firmware [github.com] efforts, since the Vcore iV hardware specifications are already open.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:29AM
Every Raspberry Pi built after 2025 will include a QTNPU! That's right, a quantum tensor neuromorphic processing unit! Give every curious British child and manchild the power of an enslaved synthetic brain on their desktop!!! Raspberry Pi: You won't believe the filling!!!!!
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:30AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 25 2017, @05:32PM
We should be following the path of those such as Mycroft
https://mycroft.ai/why-mycroft-is-important/ [mycroft.ai]
"That is why Mycroft is important. We are on the path to providing the open source community with a sustainable model for deploying virtual assistants. "
Keep going with the open source: drop the closed source. Google will have us help them, but what will they do with all that data? Give it back so open source can use it? Not likely.
Give your help and data to open source.
https://mycroft.ai/ [mycroft.ai]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:09PM
They're not on a open source, sustainable model. Their service still requires their cloud. It doesn't look like you can configure it to stay local to your system, it needs to access to their cloud to perform the majority of the audio and event processing and data mine you.
I'm not aware of anyone developing non-cloud based virtual assistants. That I could get behind. Everything else is just a way to make money off you without you realizing it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @06:43AM
Cuz the big G deserves to know!